Comments on: Techniques for unique, correct and fast geo-queries http://friism.com/techniques-for-unique-correct-and-fast-geo-queries a Michael Friis production Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:59:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: friism http://friism.com/techniques-for-unique-correct-and-fast-geo-queries/comment-page-1#comment-1105 friism Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:20:14 +0000 http://www.itu.dk/~friism/blog/?p=121#comment-1105 @Kasper: It's not a bad bet, but user defined functions cannot call routines that alter state, and rand() counts as a state-altering routine... @Kasper: It’s not a bad bet, but user defined functions cannot call routines that alter state, and rand() counts as a state-altering routine…

]]> By: Kasper Videbæk http://friism.com/techniques-for-unique-correct-and-fast-geo-queries/comment-page-1#comment-1084 Kasper Videbæk Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:07:47 +0000 http://www.itu.dk/~friism/blog/?p=121#comment-1084 "Had there been a rand(intid) aggregate, the problem would have been solved." Maybe you could make an "aggregate" UDF, using this technique: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/articles/1490.aspx Don't know if it'd be what you call an elegant solution, though... “Had there been a rand(intid) aggregate, the problem would have been solved.”

Maybe you could make an “aggregate” UDF, using this technique: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/articles/1490.aspx

Don’t know if it’d be what you call an elegant solution, though…

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